Pokemon Go #10. See ya later Feralligator, in a while Totodile

[DoctorTwo]

Despite only really playing at the weekend due to working I'm now 180k through Level 31. Today I cheated somewhat. The M25 was stationary, so I opened the app and left it on. I had 8 eggs cooking and between junctions 18 and 22 managed to hatch 7 of them. Mantine, 2x Exegcute, Krabby, Eevee, Togepi and Magby.

Congrats Abbey on reaching Level 30, and commiserations Spammy on not being able to log in.

WooWooSister Level 3 battles aren't for solo players. Level 1 is for solo players, but you might be able to get away with Level 3 on your own also.

Level 3 was definitely just beyond 2 of us, though we might have managed it with more of the more effective Pokémon at higher levels.

Looking at what's been said about the code for legendaries, they might be useful for niche skills for raids because the precise moves your Pokémon knows seem far more important when taking down a boss than even your average blissey.

the precise moves your Pokémon knows seem far more important

Oh yes definitely; moves are absolutely key.

Thanks all. That makes it clearer. Yy DS didn't think he'd be able to take a level 3 down on his own. He was hoping other people would join in but they didn't so he gave up.

He was hoping other people would join in but they didn't so he gave up.

Once he's in the battle, nobody else can join in the battle with him.

He has to wait for other players to join before the battle (once he clicks battle there's 120 seconds for others to join) or else he will be on his own.

My snorlax came home with 33 coins :)

Wish I hadn't chucked away so many potions before this update!

Loving all the extra coinage, bloody epic! Evolved another Gyarados today, named it Magicarp (dd names the 'mon)

Raids going off all around but we only had a pop at one when our train turned up.

I actually got into a gym!

Drove home and had already been chucked out in those 10 minutes

The gyms will probably settle down mid-week when the novelty wears off and people are distracted by that real life thing

Yeah, I suspect they will settle down

With the old style gyms you used to get a penalty if you tried prestiging friendly gyms with Pokémon over 3000. It knocked 500 points off how much you could prestige the gym per round. This meant I kept a lot of my big 'mons just below 3000 CP. I guess there is no reason that I can't fully power them up now?

Is this right?

PokemonGo I don't think it was a penalty specifically for over 3000CP, it was more that you gained more prestige by attacking with a lower CP Pokemon.

So if you had a 2000 and a 1200 Pokemon, you'd get more prestige for the 1200 one.

I would have powered up over 3000 before and would now if I felt the Pokemon was worth it. With some Pokemon, powering them up won't bring too much gain.

Like I have a 1627 CP Jolteon that I could power up to 2182 for my level, but there would be no point because it is a great attacker that wouldn't get much better by powering up and wasting 59,000 stardust on it, if you know what I mean?

So it really is important to make sure you're powering up the right Pokemon

We have a rubbish gyaradas that we power up. We caught him in the wild and we have grown fond of him, hence the powering up.

We have a rubbish gyaradas that we power up. We caught him in the wild and we have grown fond of him, hence the powering up.

But you must be wasting so much stardust? And stardust is quite rare.

I've just found this thread! Great to see everyone's having fun with the updated system.

I've done one raid and failed miserably!

But I have 5 pokemon in gyms (one just returned). I wondered why I didn't get any coins, but it sounds as though they've limited coins to 50 per day. I've already had 50 today.

I have a couple of questions about gym battles. Is it possible for people to feed their pokemon in a gym while you're battling? That's what seemed to happen to me. One minute the Blissey was nearly defeated, someone stopped, then walked on and suddenly it was back to full power - so unfair!

Also, can pokemon can be added to the gym during a battle? I mean in the pause between fights as you have to defeat each one 4 or 5 times? I'm sure another one appeared in the gym. But it may have been my phone playing up - it keeps crashing

Is it possible for people to feed their pokemon in a gym while you're battling?

Definitely! DH and I did it today while they were trying to kick us out. They didn't succeed and decided to give up

Also, can pokemon can be added to the gym during a battle?

Yes, it can.

We tried feeding while we were being attacked and the cp went down faster, so gave up on that one.

We at least gave the red lot a temporary headache :)

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PokemonGo I don't think it was a penalty specifically for over 3000CP, it was more that you gained more prestige by attacking with a lower CP Pokemon

I got the whole attacking with lower CP Pokémon thing. (I've 'trained' nearly 2,000 times according to my stats). I just thought there was something specific to Pokémon that were over 3000. In practice it certainly seemed to make a big difference. I thought it was 500 but not sure 🤔

PokemonGo As far as I'm aware there isn't/wasn't anything specific to do with being over 3000, but I could be wrong!

. I definitely could be wrong I usually am

You all make gym raids sound like they're really great fun, so I'm going to give it a whirl today if I can.

Do you have to be near the gym to give them berries?

Yes you do

I have had my two Gyarados in my two local gyms for 18 hours now! That's 200 coins already, I think? Or has the system changed again?